"Just four percent of employers cut back on temps because of AWR" - REC

Only four percent of employers reported that they had reduced their use of agency workers in direct response to the Agency Worker Regulations, according to on-going analysis of the impact of the one-year-old rules conducted by the Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC).

Further findings from the REC’s Industry Research Unit that have been sent to new Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Employment Relations Jo Swinson ahead of a meeting later this month include:

• Only one in 10 employers had stopped or significantly decreased the use of temporary staff in the seven months to April 2012. (A further 18 percent said they had marginally reduced their use of agency workers.)

• Of the 28 percent of employers who said they had in any way reduced their use of agency staff, two thirds said it was because of continued economic uncertainty and weak growth.

• Overall satisfaction with being a temporary worker increased from 43 percent to 52 percent in the first seven months of AWR’s implementation.

• Employer satisfaction with staffing agencies remains high, at 92 percent.

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